HIT: use of Elmo

[Bonnie LaClave <blaclav@IN-MOTION.NET>]

Hello Friends!
        A few days ago I asked for suggestions on how you all use an Elmo
presenter in your schools, so I could convince my principal to get one.
Thanks to your great help, it has now been ordered!  Several folks asked
for a HIT, so here's a summary of what I found out.

**used to teach the use of the catalog, Internet, networked and CD-ROM
encyclopedias, and other CD-ROMs.  Also use it for projecting videos.  It
is wonderfully easy to use, without all the tedious hookups and controls of
an LCD, does not require a darkened room.

**When doing presentations to groups of parents it is really nice to have a
minimal amount of equipment in the way.  The overhead and LCD panel take up
so much space.  Parents and community members are impressed when all they
see is a projector and a laptop.  Add a remote control mouse for Power
Point type deomnstrations and you've really got them!

**One of the things we planned to promote with ours in a presentation at
the end of the year for the athletic awards banquet.  Coaches can bring
pictures, slides, etc. of their teams during the season and we will put
together a snappy video presentation for the parents.  Publications gives a
"kick off" slide show every year for the yearbook promotions.  It is a lot
of work for them and because they use two projectors, and the sync unit,
they are looking forward to doing the presentation next year on the Elmo.

**We love ours and use it a lot.  We have a video distribution system and
our teachers usually just plug it into the back of their tvs.  We use it
instead of an overhead at faculty meetings.  Teachers like to use it to put
student writing on for lessons without having to make transparencies.  It
has been used to teach money, demonstrate techniques in art, show art work
form books, and I just used it today with a dictionary lesson.  I could use
the actual dictionary and they could follow along with their copy.  The
longer we have it, the more it gets used.

**We have used it with the Smart Board and we can show a document and then
cooperatively edit it and save the notes and distribute.  I did a project
using some very old bound periodicals--'30's and '40's.  I would not want
to put them on a flatbed scanner or even copy machine.  But we took
pictures of the pictures, ads, etc. with the document cam and used them in
a HyperStudio production.
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Bonnie LaClave                  Phone 765-436-2333
Library Media Specialist        Fax 765-436-2630
Thorntown Elem.                 blaclav@in-motion.net
200 Mill Street
Thorntown, IN 46071             http://www.bccn.boone.in.us/webo/thorn
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